Dušan "Duško" Bajević is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Bosnian football managers of all time, having won more trophies than any other manager from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

1948Jessica Cleaves, American singer-songwriter (died 2014)^[†]

Jessica Marguerite Cleaves was an American singer and songwriter who was the lead singer of the Friends of Distinction, Earth, Wind & Fire, Parliament Funkadelic, and Raw Silk.

1948Jasuben Shilpi, Indian sculptor (died 2013)^[†]

Jasuben Shilpi or Jasu Shilpi was an Indian bronze sculpture artist. In her career she made more than 525 bust size and 225 large size statues. She was popularly known as "The Bronze woman of India".

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1948Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (born 1896)^[†]

Na Hye-sŏk (Korean: 나혜석, April 28, 1896 – December 10, 1948) was a Korean feminist, poet, writer, painter, educator, and journalist. Her art name was Jeongwol. She was a pioneering Korean feminist writer and painter. She was the first female professional painter and the first feminist writer in Korea. She created some of the earliest Western-style paintings in Korea, and published feminist novels and short stories. She became well known as a feminist because of her criticism of the marital institution in the early 20th century.

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1948The Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations.^[†]

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) was a functional commission within the overall framework of the United Nations from 1946 until it was replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006. It was a subsidiary body of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), and was also assisted in its work by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHR).

Headlines from December 10, 1948

Spy Inquiry Here Unaffected By Renewed Truman Attack; TRUMAN UNHEEDED BY SPY JURY HERE

RED LINKS DENIED; Ex-State Department Economist Balks at Other House Queries CALLED AIDE BY CHAMBERS H. J. Wadleigh Is Silent on Ground That He Might Incriminate Himself EX-OFFICIAL BALKS AT INQUIRY ON SPIES A RELUCTANT WITNESS AT SPY HEARING

Hotels Ordered to Refund at Once $600,000 Rent Rises to Guests; HOTEL RENT RISES ORDERED PAID BACK

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BEVIN SAYS RUSSIA HAS SERIOUSLY HURT BERLIN AMITY HOPE; British Minister Tells House West Will Check Methods of Soviet, Whatever the Cost STRESSES SECURITY BOARD Cites Anglo-U. S.-French Body Set Up to Bar German Arming--Liberal Sees No Progress BEVIN SAYS RUSSIA DIMS BERLIN HOPE

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